anteriorly

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Etymology

From anterior +‎ -ly.

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  • Hyphenation: an‧te‧ri‧or‧ly

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anteriorly (comparative more anteriorly, superlative most anteriorly)

  1. before (in time)
  2. in front (in position)
  3. towards the anterior
    • 1977, Murray John Copeland, Early Paleozoic Ostracoda from Southwestern District of Mackenzie and Yukon Territory, page 30:
      Margin of dolon curling smoothly to distal margin of velum both anteriorly and posteriorly, but dolonal margins not in contact when valves closed.
    • 2011, N. Ikeya, ‎K. Ishizaki, ‎T. Hanai, Evolutionary Biology of Ostracoda, page 1045:
      In both cases the histial dolon is united anteriorly with the velar dolon and both genera are also similar in being unisulcate .

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